The Republic of Heaven

This is quite old four book trilogy by Phillip Pullman. I would reccomend them to most HDM fans, i read them just after it.


They arent very much like HDM plotwise but are just as well written

They are really good! My favorite was The Tin Princess.

I liked The Tiger in the Well, but i havent read the last one yet.

they're pretty good, as historical fiction goes.

the tin princess was published about 10 yrs after Shadow in the North (plate, original title) and that was in 1995 or sumthing, amazing how long pps been writing

The only thing I didn't like about The Tiger in the Well was I suspected who it was from the beginning

Did you? i didnt, thought he died but, havent read it for like 3 years so forgot (has a very short attantion span and memory)

I read about a book a day and I write mysteries too, so I pick up on little clues.

Sounds cool
Put em up sumwere so people can read them

oh well, the problem is I never finish them.

fair enuffs

that used to be my trouble with writing stuff... but now, instead of trying to write like, a fifty pager or something, I got for 1 or 2 page short stories... personally I think I write better that way, and I don't have the trouble of having to finish something really long.

I stick topoetry and short stories for an anthology I am thinking of compiling. I need to find a new publishing company because poetry.com only allows me to write 20 lines. Does anyone know of one?

Uh-uh. No idea.

The Shadow in the North was my fav. It made me laugh and cry and ache. The plot was really complex in a GOOD way. I love you, PP!

I haven't read these books for ages but they're great. When I was in school they ran a program thingy to get people to read more; if you read 5 books you got free chocolate, ten books you got something else and 15 you got a £7 book token. It had to be picked from a certain list, so I picked these books and that's what made me love PP.

I love the Sally Lockhart trilogy. It gets me into this detective mood for day, in which I constantly ask my dad if he's my real dad. But I hated passionately the sadness of the end of Bk 2. He just HAD to die, just HAD to!

I read this series before HDM (only because someone bought me TSK for my birthday and not NL so I couldn't begib that trilogy) but anyway, this series was what got me hooked on HDM.

I love the Sally Lockhart quartet (though I do not think that The Tin Princess is very worth reading - Sally is only in it for about two chapters, and I didn't like that!)

Anyway, the second book (the shadow in the north) made me cry! When he dies - so sad! And I rarely cry at books, in fact there are very select few that I do cry at.

But anyway definitely read Sally Lockhart but I shouldn't bother with The Tin Princess - definitely read The Tiger in the Well though.

I have read the first two books in this series, and I'm planning on reading the third soon. Sally Lockhart is a great character, and I think the time period and all the historical details are ineteresting as well. I read The Ruby in the Smoke before I read HDM, and The Shadow in the North in between HDM books (yeah, I know, I usually don;t read all the bokks in a series...I guess I like to make them last longer ).
The end of Shadow in the North made me really sad, right up there with the end of TAS. I really wasn't expecting it, and it was one of those things where, immediately after reading it, I just enated to close the booka nd stop reading and was thinking, no, this isn't what's supposed to happen! someone change it and give them a happy ending! Still a really good book though.

i sort of had to go and read that bit again to try and let it sink in.

You mean the end, or my confuding posting? Yeah, I know what you mean though, for the rest of the book I kept expecting him to have miraculously survived or something, it was kinda shocking (his death, I mean).

did you know it used to be called shadow in the plate. Plate being the photographic equipment used to develpop photographs